MVC - Is it a Design Pattern or an architecture?

MVC is an architectural pattern that splits the application into three main parts.

1. The Modal: is the part that is correspondent for all the logic that the user interacts with, for example, the data transferred from the view to the modal or from the controller to the modal
2. The view: Is the part that deals with the User Interface (UI), represents the things that the user will interact with.
3. The Controller: acts as the interface between what transpires in the view and the Modal, and processes all the business logic and requests.